Introducing the Nokia N900 mobile phone with Maemo software

The Nokia N900, running the company’s new Maemo software, is to be announced at Nokia World, on September 2. Just the other day we learnt of Nokia’s first foray into making computers, with the Booklet 3G, and now here’s another big new… well is it a mobile phone, a mobile computer, tiny wee internet tablet? It’s one of those. Or all of those. How about we call it a mobile phone on steroids?

The N900 is a touchscreen phone, full touchscreen, but which also has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Operating system wise, it runs on Nokia’s new Maemo 5, which is Linux-based.

Price and availability

There’ll be a lot more information available on the N900 after the Nokia World event on September 2. The only pricing details available right now is that the N900 will sell in the European market for 500 Euros. The only availability details right now is an October delivery to ‘selected markets’.

All Nokia Australia is saying is “We aren’t releasing a local announcement on this product at this time.”.